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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Oh, how delightful! Is there enough for two bites? One will not satisfy me. But I must see miladi." "No," interposed Wanamee. "I took in a cup of broth, but she was soundly asleep. Have some steak while it is hot. The saints be praised for a mouthful of decent food." Yes, it was good. Pani watched with eager, hungry eyes and lips aquiver.
Was that another shout? Presently Pani rose and went toward the stream. "Jeanne! Jeanne!" she called. The forest echoes made reply. She walked up, Jeanne had gone in that direction. Once it seemed as if the voice answered. Yes, over yonder was a great thicket of bloom. Surely the child would not need to go any farther. Presently there was a tangle of underbrush and wild grapevines.
In a moment the flames began a heartsome sound, and the scarlet rays went climbing and racing over the twigs. There was a fragrant warmth, a brightness, but it showed the wan, brown face, almost ashen color from paleness, and the lack-luster eyes. "Pani!"
Father says it is a great chance, for you see she can really have no dowry, there are so many of us. We must all wait for our share until father has gone." "Gone? Where?" She looked up in surprise. "Why, when he is dead. Everybody has to die, you know. And then the money they leave is divided." Jeanne nodded. It shocked her in a vague sort of fashion, and she was glad Pani had no money.
Suddenly she felt the loss of her mother. She belonged to no one in the world. "Poor petite." She made a sudden snatch at her own baby and hugged it so tightly that it shrieked, at which she laughed. "Some day a man will hug thee and thou wilt not scream," she said in good humor. Pani came from round the corner and then darted back. The boy left his work and came forward.
But the child came in presently, eager and full of news that was hardly news to her, after all. "Pani is here," she exclaimed. "Madame Dubray and her husband have gone with the trappers. They took Pani. He said he would run away. They kept him two days, and tied him at night, but he loosened the thongs and ran nearly all night. Then he has hidden away, for some new people have taken the house.
"So sweet a one does well to be set in thorns. Still, I shall claim an old friend's privilege. And I have no end of stirring adventures for your ear. I have come now from Quebec, where the ladies are most gracious and charming." "Then I shall not please you, Monsieur," curtly. "Come, Pani," linking her arm in that of the woman, "let us get out of the crowd," and she nodded a careless adieu.
The river was an equal pleasure. Pani filled her pail with plums, Jeanne her arms with flowers. The new house of Delisse Ganeau became a great source of interest. It had three rooms, which was considered quite grand for a young couple. Jacques Graumont had a bedstead, a table, and a dresser that had been his mother's, a pair of brass candlesticks and some dishes.
They turned into a sort of lane that led below the palisades. "Pani," excitedly, "let us go out on the river. There will be an early moon, and we shall not mind so that we get in by nine. And we need not stop to gossip with people, canoes are not so friendly as woodland paths." Her laugh was forced and a little bitter. Pani had hardly recovered from her surprise.
The hurricane was at its height; the huge trees about them rocked and bent like reeds, great boughs came crashing down; one of them fell upon a praying dwarf and crushed him to a pulp. Those around him saw it and uttered a wild shrill scream; Eddo, Pani, and Hana saw it and screamed also, in the arms of their bearers, for this sight of blood was terrible to them.
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